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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693217
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693217
NR44NW 25 4018 4580.
(NR 4019 4580) Cill Maire (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
Cill Maire, Mary's Church, is an old burial ground enclosed by a circular wall, 4ft to 5ft thick, enclosing an area 27ft in diameter and having an entrance 3ft wide in the NNE. Superficial inspection does not disclose any structure inside, but immediately outside are one or two roughly trimmed stones which may be monumental.
Name Book 1878; W Lamont 1959.
Cill Maire: name unconfirmed. This bracken-covered enclosure, on a level meadow, shows no obvious features of a burial ground. It measures 13.0m in overall diameter, with tumbled stone walling, never of great height, from 2.5 to 3.0m in width and 0.6m high. The stone strewn interior is featureless and there is a simple entrance as described.
Amongst the stone spread on the external south side are two, apparently artificially set, stones, 4.0m apart and both 0.6m high by 0.4m wide. They are naturally pointed, unmarked, and their purpose is obscure. No other structural traces were found in the vicinity.
Nothing is known of this enclosure at Lagavulin Farm, and no finds are reported.
Surveyed at 1:2500
Visited by OS (JRL) 25 June 1978.
